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 Post subject: time: linear or circular?
PostPosted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 6:12 pm 
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We may have discussed this already but what is your view on time?

is it linear as in past to future and thats the only way it goes?

or circular?

personally i view time as more circular or like layers, the past present and future all exist simultaneously at this very moment

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PostPosted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 8:18 am 
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I think circular.

Everything goes in a circle to me, past, present and future, though technically I think that someones past is anothers future. The world seems to repeat itself over and over again.

The mistakes we're supposed to learn from, we make again, when one war ends, another will start, and so on.

As even the years become circular. Again we're facing the 20's, 30's and so on.

Forgive all the so ons. LOL

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PostPosted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 12:27 pm 
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I'll have to be difficult and pick both options.

In my eyes time is circular with a linear flow, which makes it a wave pattern. :) Time always repeats itself but it still moves forward.

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Circular. It past/presenr/future and back and again so it continues.

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i agree with the circular theory..i feel the idea that time just goes foreward from primitive apes to us smartest in the world is too simplistic..ancient peoples rise and fall...attain knowledge and when they fall its lost again

i am still leaning more towards the metaphysical in the the past present and future are all happening now simultaneously

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This topic brings back memories of the Prince of Persia games:

"Most people think time is like a river that flows swift and sure in one direction. But I have seen the face of time, and I can tell you, they are wrong. Time is an ocean in a storm. . ."

Some theories on time travel just bring up too many logical errors in my head, but I guess we're not talking about that. I think I'll go with the answer a circle is just a line that's connected to itself. But I'll lean more to linear. Things have to change regardless of how many things repeat themselves.


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